Title - Devotion
Production - Black Label Media, Stage 6 Films, Paramount Pictures
Starring - Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski, Daren Kagasoff, Joe Jonas, Spencer Neville, Nick Hargrove, Joseph Cross, Serinda Swan, Boone Platt
Writer - Jake Crane, Jonathan Stewart
Director - J.D. Dillard
Release - 23 November 2022
I don't think this movie was marketed well. My impression was that this was a war movie, so it's title "Devotion" was just a wrong choice. To a certain extent, I still believe that's true.
With a story like this, you needed that long setup between the two main leads. And here, it took almost 3/4 in its over-2-hours-long runtime. It reminded me of Pearl Harbor, how it was also a long movie and the war aspect was more interesting than the actual story which inevitably was a love triangle.
Devotion had the fortunate acting capabilities of Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell. While I did not wholly believed in their friendship, I thought they faked it really well with great acting.
Majors' character had a dark side to him where he psyched himself up (or out), but that subplot never came to fruition.
There was a whole thing with Elizabeth Taylor in the movie, played really well by Serinda Swan, but I have to question if we really needed it. If we jumped straight to the street brawl it would have worked just as well.
As I didn't know what the real story was about, I was actually caught off guard in the third act. That's when the movie really got me and that's when I knew what the movie was about. But that was very close to 2 hours in the runtime and it just wasn't worth the first two acts.
I've never read the source material but I think this screenplay was over adapted.
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